Sentence examples for business to devote from inspiring English sources

In 1923 he left the jewelry business to devote himself fully to a literary career.

"It was just better business to devote 100percentt of staff effort to the new system," she said.

When she recorded "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," she was a 33-year-old wife and mother intending to retire from the business to devote herself to her family full time.

If he's hungry, it's, 'When's dinner?' and if he's tired, it's, 'I'm going to bed".' Bush has often said he loves Rove's loyalty, and there is the fact that Rove sold his business to devote all his energies to him.

She gave up that business to devote more time to her music career, which had blossomed with the release of three collections of lullabies, bedtime renditions of traditional folk songs and contemporary music, from Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender" to the Talking Heads' "This Must Be the Place".

It was Mr. Giuliani who instituted zoning laws in 1995 that required adult businesses to devote no more than 40percentt of their business to pornography.

The staggering costs – both from healthcare spending and loss of productivity – are meant as more of a wake-up call to governments and businesses to devote more resources to tackling sedentary lifestyles.

"We seem to have created a tax system that's encouraging American businesses to devote resources to avoiding taxes," he said while campaigning last week alongside Sherron Watkins, the former Enron executive who became a leading witness against that company's accounting practices.

In the late 1960's, he sold all of his business interests to devote more time to his love of sports.

This is why it is a risky business indeed to devote nearly 400 pages to a confection called le Cirque des Rêves, a circus that occurs at night (as opposed to what other sort of circus, by the way?) and is famous, apparently, for doing wild, magical, life-changing, impossible things.

He has never been involved in the business, preferring to devote his time to bird-watching and photography.